PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



Benacus, Ollium Sebinnus, Lambrum Eupilis, omnes 

 incolas Padi. 



132 Alpis in longitudinera |xi p. patere a supero mari 

 ad inferum Caelius tradit, Timagenes xxv p. deductis, 

 in latitudinem autem Cornelius Nepos c, T. Livius 

 rn stadiorum, utcrque diversis in locis ; namque et 

 centum milia exccdunt aliquando, ubi Germaniam 

 ab Italia submovent, nec Lxx inplent reliqua sui 

 parte graciles, veluti naturae providentia. latitudo 

 Italiae subter radices earum a \'aro per \'ada Sabatia, 

 Taurinos, Comum, Brixiam, Wronam, Vicetiani, 

 Opitergium, Aquileiam, Tergeste, Polam, ad ^ Arsiam 

 DccxLv coUigit. 



133 XX. Incolae Alpium multi populi, sed inlustres a 

 Pola ad Tergestis regionem Fecusses, Subocrini, 

 Catali, Menoncaleni, iuxtaque Carnos quondam 

 Taurisci appellati, nunc Norici ; his contermini 

 Raeti et \'indelici, omnes in multas civitates divisi. 

 Raetos Tuscorum prolem arbitrantur a Gallis pulsos 

 duce Raeto. verso deinde in ^ Italiam pectore 

 Alpium Latini iuris Euganeae gentes, quanmi 



134 oppida xxxiv enumcrat Cato. ex his TriumpiUni, 

 venaHs cum agris suis populus, dein Camunni con- 

 pluresque similes finitimis adtributi municipiis. 

 Lepontios et Salassos Tauriscae gentis idem Cato 



* ad a/id. liafk/uitn. * in add. Dalerampius. 



' The stade or furlong was J of a Roman mile. But it 

 lonka as if the t-ext wore wrniij,', aa what follows secms to ehow 

 that 100 mile« should he the highcr figure, and the estimate 

 of 3UO0 stades attributed to Livy is improbably large. 



^' The name survives in Val Trompia. 



' Presumahly they acctipted membership of the Roman 

 Empire for a pccuniary considenition. 



" Val Camonica. • \ al Levuntina. Val d'Aosta. 



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